The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Carole Lawson and Rick Brown, co-founders of MarketStorm, an AI-driven advertising and demand-generation firm that helps brands reach customers long before they’re ready to buy. Rick and Carole share how they built MarketStorm from the ground up, never taking outside investment, and turned it into a nationwide operation by fusing R...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Mike Curtis, Chief Operating Officer of Traders Edge Network. Mike opens up about his introduction to the markets at just twelve years old and the first painful lesson he learned when an earnings event wiped out a trade. From that moment on, he shifted away from trying to predict every market move and toward designing rule-based, r...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Alberto Gimeno, co-founder and CEO of Invofox, a document-parsing and data-extraction API trusted by more than 150 companies across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. A Spanish mathematician and computer scientist, Alberto spent nearly a decade building startups in Madrid before spotting the unstructured-data challenge while cons...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Steve Nolan, CEO of Ariel Group, a leadership-development and executive-coaching firm that helps some of the world’s best-known organizations build leaders who communicate with clarity and lead with real presence.  With more than 30 years of experience transforming companies from the inside, whether as CRO at The Myers-Briggs Compa...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Brooke MacLean, CEO of Marketwake, an Atlanta-based growth marketing agency that marries data and creative storytelling.  Brooke shares how she scaled Marketwake to nearly 80 employees, landed on the Inc. 5000 list six times, and earned a spot on Inc.’s Best Places to Work for five consecutive years. She also reflects on her early...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Zenon Olbrys, CEO of Microf, a company that helps homeowners finance essential HVAC and water-heater replacements through a flexible lease-to-own program when traditional lenders turn them away.  Zenon’s path to Microf is anything but conventional: after 17 years leading companies through the chaos of post-communist Central and Eas...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Rich Kahn, CEO and co-founder of Anura.io, the leading ad-fraud detection platform that uncovers bots, malware, and fake clicks siphoning off marketing budgets.  Rich traces his entrepreneurial roots back to writing his first video game at age nine and publishing it by twelve. After decades of bootstrapping multiple web ventures an...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Loral Langemeier, CEO and founder of Live Out Loud, about her two-decade journey as “the Millionaire Maker.” Together they explore why wealth isn’t a one-off windfall but a repeatable cycle of building income-generating assets, reinforcing your tax and corporate foundations, and then reinvesting those gains for lasting growth. Lora...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Steve Carver, product development director and master trainer at Jump Sport. Zach and Steve kick things off by exploring Steve’s unlikely journey from gym front-desk clerk to “Mr. Bouncer,” a fitness celebrity who has championed rebounding for more than three decades.  Along the way, Steve shares the biggest lesson he’d tell his yo...

In this episode of the Entrepreneurs Logbook Podcast, Zachary speaks with John Link, president of Link Financial and Link Wealth Management. Zach and John dive into his unlikely journey from stocking shelves as a 10-year-old paperboy to spending 23 years in the grocery industry, where he became the youngest store manager in his company at just 23, before making a deliberate pivot at age 39 into fi...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Cameron LiButti, founder of Bidview Marketing. Cameron shares how his analytical engineering background gave him an edge when he switched lanes into digital marketing, building a seven-figure agency that generates millions in revenue for professional service firms, from medical practices and law offices to financial advisors and re...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Andrew Davis, SVP of Marketing and Sales at TextUs, about the surprising power of business texting to drive faster sales cycles and deeper customer engagement.  Andrew draws on more than 15 years in B2B SaaS marketing and revenue leadership, having held roles at Fishbowl, Every Commerce, and Service Fusion, to explain why modern go...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Russell Halper, founder and managing director of Insight Kitchen. With two decades of experience at the intersection of AI, data science, supply chain and revenue management, including an unlikely first project at the original Willy Wonka candy factory, Russ explains why he left a traditional consulting model to build a firm that d...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Vitalii Sydorenko, CEO and Partner at Gearheart, an AI-powered product and design studio based in San Francisco. Vitalii brings fourteen years of experience in the trenches of B2B SaaS, first as a bootstrapped founder who iterated through 37 versions of a media-monitoring platform in Ukraine (serving clients like McDonald’s, Samsun...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Krista Karpan and Nicolette McIntyre, co-founders of Milk Media, an award-winning performance marketing agency that’s helped more than 60 e-commerce brands drive over $160 million in revenue. Krista and Nicolette share how they bootstrapped Milk Media in a loft back in 2017, with no outside funding or blueprint, and built a team of...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Aaron Tellier, entrepreneur and CMO at The Volute Group, about the mindset and strategies that drive sustainable growth. Aaron walks us through his journey, from the U.S. Naval Academy graduate and two tours in the Persian Gulf to CRM leadership roles at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, and later co-founding a craft brewery and a...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Anne McGhee-Stinson, co-owner and managing partner of InteraWorks, a global leadership and performance firm dedicated to helping organizations strengthen alignment, build trust, and create a culture for performance.  Drawing on over 30 years of executive coaching experience with clients like Dell, Microsoft and Deloitte, Anne chall...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Jimmy Moore, co-founder and CEO of FLO Business Solutions. Jimmy shares the pivotal “would-do-differently” lessons learned while building FLO, namely, a bolder recruiting strategy and bringing on dedicated operations and rev-ops leadership much sooner.  He recounts how a people-first mindset, honed during his years as an Army veter...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Jen Austin, founder of Riply. With more than three decades of experience across every role in radio, from board operator and host to news anchor and executive, Jen has witnessed firsthand the steady erosion of local newsrooms even as community demand grows.  That observation led her to build Riply, an AI-assisted intelligence platf...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Boris Musheyev, founder of BORISMTAX, a tax planning and advisory firm. Boris, a CPA and certified tax strategist whose firm has landed on the Inc. 5000 two years running, has helped over 40,000 business owners stop overpaying the IRS through proactive tax strategy.  He shares his journey from building a national practice across 40...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Malinda Sanna, founder and CEO of LookLook, a boutique consumer-insights platform that has quietly become the go-to partner for some of the world’s most prestigious luxury brands.  Malinda recounts her years at top New York agencies, when she realized that traditional market research, panels, focus groups in strip-mall meeting room...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Robb Fahrion, co-founder and CEO of Flying V Group, a full-service digital marketing agency based in Newport Beach. Robb walks us through the agency’s humble beginnings, bootstrapping with just $50,000 in 2016, and how he and his brother Brennan built a 34-member global team generating $4.6 million in annual revenue without outside...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Eric Tabone, founder and managing director of Nearshore Business Solutions . Eric shares how a 16-year move to Bogotá turned into three successful Latin America–based companies, more than 200 candidate placements, and over $8 million in client hiring cost savings, all born from lessons learned by making “every mistake in the book.”...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary speaks with Athin Cassiotis, a high-school dropout-turned-MBA, certified NLP master practitioner and global business-growth expert. Athin shares how he went from working in waste management to consulting for brands like Westfield, Coles and even the U.S. Department of Defense, and why sales is the single most important skill every entrepreneur...

In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook, Zachary Bernard speaks with Michael Barbarita, founder of Next Step CFO. Michael draws on four decades of hands-on experience across retail, manufacturing, and service companies, highlighting how he scaled Ski Town USA from $2.5 million to $8 million in under five years, before pivoting to help over 50 clients worldwide implement advanced financial an...